Re: What is the logic of storing XML in a Database?

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:45:59 GMT
Message-ID: <XveOh.16081$PV3.166161_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>


David Cressey wrote:

> "Daniel" <danielaparker_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1175023534.762441.188210_at_y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> 

>>On Mar 27, 1:34 pm, "Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuik..._at_yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Mar 27, 8:10 am, "Daniel" <danielapar..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Standardized XML transport formats are commonly used for representing
>>>>messages.
>>>
>>>If "transport" and "messages" are merely implementation details of
>>>some distributed database application,
>>
>>But of course they're not, they have nothing really to do with
>>distributed database application, nor is it desirable that they
>>should. Consequently they have nothing really to do with dbms theory.
> 
> There are three things you can do with data:  process it, store it, and
> transport it.
> These three are all interrelated.

That seems so limiting like having an emotional vocabulary of happy, sad

and angry. With data, one can: misinterpret it, corrupt it, ignore it, 
discover it, lose it, find it, buy it, sell it, steal it, protect it, 
waste it, discuss it, manage it etc.
Received on Tue Mar 27 2007 - 21:45:59 CEST

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